Wednesday, 27 March 2013

I installed a new PC for someone at work. It was originally using DVI but his monitor connection was HDMI.

It put a strange black border around the screen. In times gone by (CRT days), one would simply expand the screen to fit!

Anyway, to fix it I went to Catalyst Control Center (this seems to happen a lot with ATI cards), flat panel properties and changed the scanning to 0% as by default there is what is "underscan" by up to 15%.

Just modify the slider and you are good to go and no more black border/frame around the screen.

Thursday, 7 March 2013

If you have this problem and the other function keys are working e.g. volume, mute and the panel passes the diagnostic test (F12 and boot to diagnostics) then it is your graphics card driver that is the problem i.e. you haven't installed it yet or you need to reinstall it.